slashing Definition

slash¹
verb slashes, slashed, slashing

tr & intr
1. To make sweeping cuts or cutting strokes, especially repeatedly.
2. To cut by striking violently and often randomly.

Thesaurus: cut, slit, sever, incise.
3. To make long cuts or gashes in something.
4. To slit (a garment) so as to reveal the lining or material underneath.
5. colloq
To reduce (prices, etc) suddenly and drastically.

noun slashes

1. A sweeping cutting stroke.
2. A long and sometimes deep cut.

Thesaurus: gash, cut, laceration, incision, rip.
3. An oblique line (/) in writing or printing; a solidus.

Form: slash mark (also)
4. A cut in cloth intended to reveal the colours or material underneath.

Derivative: slashed
adj

Derivative: slasher
noun

Derivative: slashing
noun, adj

Etymology: 14c: probably from French esclachier to break.

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slash² (coarse) (slang)
verb

intr
slashes, slashed, slashing
1. To urinate.

noun

slashes
1. An act of urinating.

Etymology: 1970s: perhaps from Scots dialect, meaning ‘large splash'.